Hitting out on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP), Samajwadi Celebration (SP) nationwide president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged that regardless of adopting all types malpractices, the BJP suffered “a depressing defeat in seats simply exterior the cities” in simply concluded city native physique elections in Uttar Pradesh.
He additionally mentioned the SP would have had carried out even higher had “the BJP performed truthful with out utilizing dishonest, money-power and misuse of authorities machinery”.
Akhilesh Yadav mentioned this in a tweet after which in an announcement issued by the celebration in the night— a day after the ULB elections outcomes had been declared. The SP chief congratulated all celebration candidates who received the civic elections and in addition those that defeated their BJP rivals.
He additionally hit out on the state election fee (SEC) saying that it was unhappy that regardless of being liable for holding free and truthful polls, the SEC’s function in the election remained “suspicious”.
Akhilesh mentioned the SP, after noticing the misuse of energy and authorities machinery and victimisation of opposition employees and leaders in the primary part of the polls, had demanded the SEC to make higher preparations nevertheless it selected to remain a mute spectator even when opposition’s voice was being suppressed in the course of the “suspicious” counting course of.
“The reality is that the BJP received the city native physique polls by malpractices and dishonest counting. This so-called victory of the BJP is betrayal of democracy and the Structure and an insult of the general public mandate”, the SP chief mentioned in the assertion.